Rails - Aug 2006 - yield :layout, add extra content at controller level

Hi,

Could someone point me in the right direction for specifying content at 
the controller level so that I could use something similar to "yield 
:left_nav_content" as well as "yield :layout" in my layouts?

I know I can specifiy this content in my view using something like:

<% content_for("left_nav_content") do %>
    <h1>Some Menu Options</h1>
<% end %>

However I would need to repeat this in each view for a particular 
controller. Any pointers on where to start looking at the 
ActionController source to understand how this mechanism works greatly 
received.

Andrew.

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Andrew,

If you need to repeat a content block in numerous views I would
recommend simply creating another layout for those actions to use.

Hope this helps,
Zack

On 8/5/06, Andrew Edwards <andrew@shavers.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could someone point me in the right direction for specifying content at
> the controller level so that I could use something similar to "yield
> :left_nav_content" as well as "yield :layout" in my layouts?
>
> I know I can specifiy this content in my view using something like:
>
> <% content_for("left_nav_content") do %>
>     <h1>Some Menu Options</h1>
> <% end %>
>
> However I would need to repeat this in each view for a particular
> controller. Any pointers on where to start looking at the
> ActionController source to understand how this mechanism works greatly
> received.
>
> Andrew.
>
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Zack Chandler wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> If you need to repeat a content block in numerous views I would
> recommend simply creating another layout for those actions to use.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Zack
Hi Zack,

This was the path I was taking but found that there was a lot of 
repeated code as each controller only required a different left hand 
menu.

Ideally I would like to be able to stack layouts, which unfortunately it 
not a feature I am aware of. I have taken this opportunity to learn more 
about the plugins and am seeing if there is any way I could augment the 
ActionController to give an easily reversed temporary solution.

I''m still learning ruby so get a bit lost when trying to follow some of
the rails ActionController and ActionView relationships.

All I really need is to pass the name of a partial to the layout so that 
it can insert it in the left hand column.  Unless a plugin exists that 
does something similar?

It just seems such a waste to duplicate a bunch of layouts just for the 
difference of a single section. I suppose I could pass in the menu via a 
partial using the content_for helper in each view but it''s similarly 
anti-DRY given multiple actions for a controller.

Andrew.

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